Texting Bans Connected to Drop in Car Accident Injuries

A report recently published in the
American Journal of Public Health found that
car accident-related injuries, as documented by hospital records, have decreased by
7% between the years 2003 and 2010 in states that strictly enforce texting
while driving bans.

Texas A&M School of Public Health assistant professor Alva Ferdinand
said the decrease in car crash injuries is especially evident in states
that primarily enforce texting bans, which means police officers can pull
someone over for suspicion of texting rather than “secondary enforcement”
which means that another violation has to take place before the officer
can enforce any texting-while-driving policies.

At present, 45 states and Washington, D.C. have imposed bans on texting
while driving.

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of how common and dangerous this behavior is. If you have been involved
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